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Spur-winged goose

Plectropterus gambensis
Fa mo malQuai fa mal, ma i na ta fa nagin donn serius.
Auters animals tossics Tossic da mangiarMangia: PlantasTossic, betg tissientà
Privel per umans: DolurusQuai po far propi mal, ma i n'è bunamain mai grav.

The spur-winged goose is a large waterbird from Sub-Saharan Africa, and on average it is the world's largest goose. Some populations are poisonous to eat: birds that feed on many blister beetles carry a poison called cantharidin in their body tissue.1

Tossic u tissientà? Animals tissientads injecteschan tissi cun ina morsa u ina piztgada. Animals tossics èn nuschaivels, sch'ins als tutga u als mangia. Quest qua è tossic.
Viva en
Sub-Saharan Africa, including eastern and southern Africa, and western Africa from Senegal to Chad1
Africa
Pagina iniziala
Open grasslands with lakes, seasonal pools, rivers, swamps and river deltas. Large inland rivers and lakes are the most common homes. It avoids salt lakes and upland areas, though it can live up to 3,000 m in eastern Africa, and it is absent from dry zones.1
Lunghezza
75 cm fin 1,1 m (2,5 ft fin 3,8 ft)1
Paisa
2,4 kg fin 10 kg (5,3 lb fin 22 lb)1
Sveltezza maximala
circa 40 km/h (25 mph)
Sgular, stima approximativa
Tge mangia el?
It grazes mostly on plant matter, including grass and sedge shoots, aquatic plants, seeds, farm grains, fruit such as figs, and tuberous crops. It occasionally eats small fish or insects.1
Propi!Foto da Spur-winged goose
Spur-winged goose. Foto: Charles J. Sharp. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.

Co renconuscher el

  • Mainly black, with a white face1
  • Large white patches on the wings1
  • Long, pinkish red legs1
  • Males are larger than females and have a bigger red facial patch and a knob at the base of the upper bill1
  • Usually seen in small flocks of up to 50 birds near water1

Forza tossica

Tossic da mangiar

El è mo nuschaivel, sch'insatge al mangia.

Tge fa sia substanza tossica?

This goose is not venomous. Its poison, cantharidin, is held in the bird's tissue and comes from blister beetles it eats. Eating the cooked goose poisons the person who eats it.1

Quant privlus è el per umans?

Privel per umans: DolurusQuai po far propi mal, ma i n'è bunamain mai grav.

Only populations whose diet includes large amounts of blister beetles are poisonous. A dose of 10 mg of cantharidin can kill a human. The risk is to people who eat the cooked goose.1

Tge fa el, cura ch'el ha tema?

Its alarm call is a soft bubbling "cherwit" when it takes flight or feels alarmed.1

Sch'insatgi l'ha tutgà u mangià

  • Sch'insatgi l'ha mangià u ha sintoms suenter l'avair mangià: clama immediat tes numer d'urgenza u il center toxicologic.

Clama adina l'emprim tes numer d'urgenza (112, 000, 911). Quai è in cussegl general d'emprim agid, betg in cussegl medicinal. Basa da l'emprim agid

Resta en segirezza

  • Na tutga, na piglia e na tizza mai in animal selvadi, gnanc in pitschen, ed era sch'el para da durmir u d'esser mort.
  • Dà spazi a l'animal. Sche ti scuntras in, resta calm, va plaun enavos e lascha ir el per sia via.
  • Sche ti l'has tutgà u mangià: na sfruscha betg ils egls u la bucca, lava ils mauns e tschertga agid medicinal.

El n'ha betg quai sin tai. Ses tissi è mo là, per che nagin na al mangia. Dapli davart la segirezza

Nua sin il mund?

AfricaAsiaEuropaAmerica dal NordAmerica dal SidAustralia ed Oceania

Quant grond è el?

Quant lung è el?

Spur-winged goose circa 1,1 m lung (3,8 ft)In chaun circa 1 m (3,3 ft)In creschì circa 1,7 m (5,6 ft)

Quant grev è el?

uschè grev sco 2,5 giats da chasa
uschè lung sco 2,5 giats da chasa dal nas fin a la cuauschè lung sco 6 bananas ina suenter l'autrapudess sgular sur in entir plaz da ballape en 9,5 secundas

Quant grond è Spur-winged goose cumpareglià cun TAI?

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Quant svelt è el?

bun da savair

Fatgs

1

On average, it is the world's largest goose. It is also one of the largest African waterfowl, after the wading Goliath heron.1

2

During the breeding season, it is highly aggressive. It can use the spur on the bend of its wing in fights with other birds.1

3

Its wingspan can reach 150 to 200 cm, which is wider than most adults are tall.1

4

Its nests can be found in unusual places, including tree holes, rock cavities, old nests of other birds, termite mounds and aardvark burrows.1

5

Although it belongs to the duck, goose and swan family, Anatidae, its unique features place it in its own subfamily, the Plectropterinae.1

Per experts da tissi

Num scientific
Plectropterus gambensis
Gruppa
Auters animals tossics
Famiglia
Anatidae2
Urden
Anseriformes
Continents
Africa
Privel per umans
2 / 5: Dolurus3

Da nua che vegnan ils fatgs

  1. Spur-winged goose (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
  2. Plectropterus gambensis (iNaturalist): nums e classificaziun.
  3. Venom Wiki: il stgalim da privel, la grondezza tipica e la stima da la sveltezza èn noss agens. Guarda co che nus als calculain: Co che nus valitain il privel.

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